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by CWuestefeld 3361 days ago
Symantec had already concluded that Longhorn was a group based in North America. That was partly based on the American time zones they saw, but also on the finding that Longhorn primarily targeted devices in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East—and seemed particularly averse to American computers.

Now the CIA is going to claim that for national security reasons, they're going to have to hack American computers too.

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Humor aside, one wonders how much increased communication could facilitate common malware usage between the CIA, NSA, etc. If some common malware were developed and distributed agnostic to foreign or domestic targets, it could be a conduit for other, more targeted software to be deployed, and otherwise not appear, based on detection, to specifically target foreign or domestic machines.
Couple of hours and if you move south in Europe it could be even longer